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Object-level control
Separate sensitive video into policy-bound elements so access can follow purpose and authority.
Experience
The work behind the capability.
Product-building, validation, industrial and international experience carried into Snake Island Lab—and applied to the next capability programme.
Founder-built venture · Sigen AI
Scaling defence innovations.
Snake Island Lab helps defence innovators serving sovereign and international programmes adapt and scale promising technologies, validate them against real operational requirements, and build credible pathways to production in Canada.
This operating model is informed by founder experience building technology ventures. Igor Kolosiuk co-founded Sigen AI, an independent Vancouver company focused on privacy-preserving video and trusted-data workflows.
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Integrity and provenance
Preserve source, transformations and release decisions so recipients can understand what they received.
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Purpose-built views
Create different authorised representations for operational, technical, analytical and training teams.
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Constrained environments
Develop information-sharing approaches for tactical, low-bandwidth and security-sensitive settings.
From product work to capability work
This founder experience informs how Snake Island Lab approaches requirements, information-release rules, evidence design, adaptation and technology transfer. The venture remains a separate company record.
Programme and venture record
The relationships behind the record.
Canada-based validation
From Canadian technology to operational evidence.
Snake Island Lab works with Canadian dual-use companies on operational-use-case framing, validation planning and preparation for testing, with Ukraine-informed learning used where it is relevant and authorised.
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Frame
Define the mission, intended user, operating constraints and evidence gap before testing begins.
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Prepare
Build scenarios, measures, data requirements and failure-mode hypotheses around the technology.
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Validate
Test against real operating requirements and incorporate authorised specialist or field feedback.
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Scale
Turn the result into adaptation priorities, a Canadian manufacturing path and a supportable programme.
Founder experience · Autonomous systems and industrial capability
Connecting unmanned systems, AI and industrial delivery.
Igor Kolosiuk is a technology founder and product executive working across AI, computer vision, unmanned systems and industrial product development. His earlier venture work included FlyCharged, a remote-operated UAV platform developed around modified drones, onboard cameras and sensors, a cloud-based AI backend and operator workflows.
Public records name Igor as an inventor on a 2020 published U.S. patent application for an autonomous UAV docking, storage, charging and refuelling station. His public professional profile also describes work since 2014 across computer vision, unmanned and ISR systems, including remote-surveillance workflows for border-security and peacekeeping contexts.
His industrial background includes founder and board roles in Ukrainian metal-structure and construction-technology ventures. At Snake Island Lab, he leads capability framing, product strategy and evidence-system design for defence and dual-use programmes.
Founder experience · Defence programmes and partnerships
Turning institutional requirements into adoption pathways.
Sergii Vlashchenko is a Ukrainian strategy, business-development and defence-innovation executive based in Vancouver. Across more than 20 years, he has worked in public-sector technology, critical infrastructure, AI, information integrity and unmanned and autonomous systems.
From 2014 to 2022, he founded and led iStrategy, delivering government and defence-related technology programmes involving Ukraine’s infrastructure institutions and Ministry of Defence. During 2022–2024, his civilian advisory and project work covered critical-infrastructure protection, logistics, defence innovation, technology evaluation, procurement and manufacturing assessment, and classified defence-innovation projects for other Ukrainian governmental agencies, with details withheld.
He also led an AI counter-propaganda initiative and received a Ministry of Defence of Ukraine award in 2024. Today, at Snake Island Lab and Sigen AI, he leads Canada–Ukraine partnerships, programme design, institutional engagement, commercialisation and adoption pathways for defence and dual-use technologies.
His international work connects Ukrainian expertise with Canadian and allied ecosystems; he is open to senior advisory mandates in the UAE and other international markets, subject to contract, visa and security requirements.
Partner-network experience · Washington, D.C.
Frontline Drone Operations
Snake Island Institute co-organized a closed-door convening with the Institute for the Study of War, bringing active-duty Ukrainian drone practitioners into direct dialogue with a specialist Washington audience. October 2025.
Snake Island Institute activity · presented as experience across the broader partner network.
International partner-network record
Defence dialogue across allied institutions.
These activities were delivered by Snake Island Institute and are shown as experience across the broader partner network—not as Snake Island Lab client engagements.
Washington, D.C. · 25 March 2026
Air Defense in the Drone Age
Co-organized by Snake Island Institute and With Honor
Georgetown University · Washington, D.C. · 2025
Frontline Futures
Presented by Snake Island Institute
New York City · 29 October 2025
ERGO Global Flashpoint Roundtable
With participation from Snake Island Institute
Munich · February 2026
Drone Warfare and European Security
With participation from Snake Island Institute
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